Posted on 10/19/2018 7:07:59 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Tie-breaks will be played at 12-12 in the final set at Wimbledon from next year, the All England Lawn Tennis Club has announced.
It comes after the final set of Kevin Anderson's semi-final with John Isner this year lasted almost three hours.
Afterwards South African Anderson, who eventually won the set 26-24, called for a rethink of the format.
The AELTC said "the time had come" to introduce a tie-break method at "a reasonable point" in a deciding set.
The winner will be the first player or team to reach seven points with an advantage of two or more points.
This year's match between Anderson, 32, and Isner, 33, was the second longest in Wimbledon history.
Isner was also involved in the longest match when the American beat France's Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the final set of their first-round match in 2010.
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I dunno. It kinda reminds me of when the boxing championship distance was reduced from 15 rounds to 12.
Yes. With only two days to recover between a semi-final and final, a six hour slug fest in a semi final means the survivor is incapable of performing at anything like their best. When Isner and Mahut played their 11 hour marathon Isner’s feet weren’t just blistered, the blisters had burst and then chafed so much he had blood all over the inside of his shoes.
The tennis professional associations all need to agree on a single standard for match tiebreakers.
Women get paid more per hour than the men do at Wimbledon. Is this the ‘equality’ feminazis are talking about?
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